Education
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1987: Laurea in Chemistry (110/110 e Lode) at the Università degli Studi di Firenze with a thesis on
magnetic properties of low dimensional materials based on nitronyl-nitroxide radicals and transition metal ions
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1992: PhD in Chemical Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Firenze discussing a thesis on Molecular Magnetic Materials,
supervisor Prof. D. Gatteschi
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Academic career
- 1997-2000: Ricercatore SSD CHIM03 presso la Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Firenze
- since 2000: Associate Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry in the Faculty of Pharamacy, Università degli Studi di Firenze
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Affiliations
- Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Consorzio Interuniversitario per La Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM)
- Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Additional Teaching Activity
- since 2004: “Magnetic Molecules” in the Faculty of Science of the Università degli Studi di Firenze,
Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Fisica ed Astrofisica
- dal 2007: “Molecular and Supramolecula Materials”
Classe di Scienze della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
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Other Activities
- 2002-2005: Member of the Editorial Board of the journal
Dalton Transaction of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- since 2007: Member of the International Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal Chemistry
of Material of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- since 2007: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Inorganic Chemistry
of the American Chemical Society
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Experiences abroad
- Lab. Electronique Fondamentale, Universitè Paris Sud, France
- Dep. Rech. Fondamentale, Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires, Grenoble, France
- Frequent visitor of the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, CNRS-Max Plank Inst., Grenoble, France
- May 2001, Visiting Professor at the Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France
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Awards
- 2000: Medaglia Nasini (2000) for the best young inorganic chemist of the year
- 2002: Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize
- 2002: Gonfalone d’argento del Consiglio Regionale della Toscana
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Publications
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Coordination & managment
- 2002-2008: Recipient of a grant funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2002 -2008) on Molecular Magnetism
- since 2005: Activity Leader for the “ROADMAP for research in Molecular Magnetism” in the Network of Excellence “Magmanet” funded by the EC (VI FP)
- since 2008: Member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the l European Institute of Molecular Magnetism (EIMM)
- since 2008:Senior Scientist of the EC project “4FNANOMAG: Theoretical basis for the of Lanthanide - based molecular nanomagnets”,
in the frame of FP7- PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, Intra European Fellowships
- since 2007: Coordinator of an Industrial Collaboration with Eni S.p.A. on
“Magnetometry for the characterization of Co/Al2O3 catalist for Fisher Tropsch synthesis”
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Referee acrivities
- Referee for most important journals in Chemistry, Physics and Material Science like Nature Materials,
Journal American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Physical Review Letters, etc.
- Referee for the American National Science Foundation (http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov)
- Referee for the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/)
- Invited expert evaluator by the Scientific Advisory Board del Leibniz Institute for Solid State Research, IFW, Dresda (Germania)
- Member since 2005 of Programme Committee of the Large Scale Facility Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, C.N.R.S., Grenoble, Francia. (http://ghmfl.grenoble.cnrs.fr)
- Referee for Prisma Projects of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM) (http://www.instm.it)
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